Buckwells Quotes & Sayings

You take up the most room." "Nobody asked your opinion," Cole said, glaring at his younger brother in the rearview mirror. — Ali Novak

Miss Climpson's active mind quickly conjured up a picture of the rabbit-fair-haired and a little paunchy, with a habit of saying, "I'll ask the wife." Miss Climpson wondered why Providence saw fit to create such men. For Miss Climpson, men were intended to be masterful, even though wicked or foolish. She was a spinster made and not born- a perfectly womanly woman. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I felt rather like the new moon: the shadow of pain and death was still clearly visible to me - but only because the light was there to throw it into perspective. — Diana Gabaldon

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things. — Brian Tracy

She had stepped into the thin strip of earth that they claimed as their own. Bound by the last building on Brewster and a brick wall, they reigned in that unlit alley like dwarfed warrior kings. Born with the appendages of power, circumcised by the guillotine, and baptized with the steam from a million non reflective mirrors, these young men wouldn't be called upon to thrust a bayonet into an Asian farmer, target a torpedo, scatter their iron seed from a B-52 into the wound of the earth, point a finger to move a nation, or stick a pole into the moon
and they knew it. They only had that three-hundred-foot alley to serve them as stateroom, armored tank, and executioner's chamber. — Gloria Naylor

Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis. — Gary Keller

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody. — Rex Stout

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame. — Tallulah Bankhead

Life and Death took a break,
weary from their burdensome role.
Nobody lived or died that day. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

...my fingers were trembling as I pressed the number eleven on the elevator panel; my heart was smashing violently against my ribs with the consciousness of reckless guilt. Or rather, the consciousness of an absence of guilt: that I didn't care, didn't give a damn. That it was my turn to break things, to hurt someone irreparably. — Beatriz Williams

I think the people I talk about are generally so stupid that they don't even know I'm saying bad things about them. I've run into Paris Hilton and she's like, Oh, I love your show. And I'm like, You can't love my show if you can hear. — Chelsea Handler

If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever. — Mel White

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free. — Nelson Mandela